🏏India vs New Zealand, 1st T20I: JSCA Stadium Complex, Ranchi 🏏 - Page 4

Mitch Santner: We were challenged in the ODIs. There is no experience like playing India at home. Would be a challenge for some of the new guys. Looks pretty good. The dew is setting in. Would have been good to bowl first. Putting runs on the board and then defending would be challenging. Tom Latham and Nicholls are gone. Chapman and Sodhi are in.

Pitch report: "The average first innings score is 156. Square boundaries are little over 60 and straight boundaries are little over 70, in the corner around the players pavilion it's only 57 and 59 metres. The pitch looks excellent, there is even covering of grass and there might be some help with the new ball. There is a lot of talk about the dew, the curator kept the grass as minimum as possible on the outfield to negate the dew factor. The ball will skid on nicely, but looks an excellent pitch for batting," reckon Ajit Agarkar and Danny Morrison

Originally posted by: Nichuss

7pm?

For me, it is already 12.10 am.

Waiting for you, Soni and others to be here to post scores further. ❤️

New Zealand (Playing XI): Finn Allen, Devon Conway(w), Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), Michael Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner

India (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya(c), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh

Mitch Santner: We were challenged in the ODIs. There is no experience like playing India at home. Would be a challenge for some of the new guys. Looks pretty good. The dew is setting in. Would have been good to bowl first. Putting runs on the board and then defending would be challenging. Tom Latham and Nicholls are gone. Chapman and Sodhi are in.

India have won the toss and have opted to field

Hardik Pandya: We will have a bowl first. Looks like a good track. I can see dew right now and hence we want to bowl first. Just go out there and play the best cricket we know. It is a young team. We will focus on playing good cricket. Playing the ODIs before T20Is makes it easy to pass on. For a lot of them it is an experience just being in the team. Yuzi, Mukesh, Jitesh and Prithvi miss out.

India have won the toss and have opted to field

Pitch report: "The average first innings score is 156. Square boundaries are little over 60 and straight boundaries are little over 70, in the corner around the players pavilion it's only 57 and 59 metres. The pitch looks excellent, there is even covering of grass and there might be some help with the new ball. There is a lot of talk about the dew, the curator kept the grass as minimum as possible on the outfield to negate the dew factor. The ball will skid on nicely, but looks an excellent pitch for batting," reckon Ajit Agarkar and Danny Morrison

We have won toss & nz bats

Update

South Africa 168/3 off 29* vs Eng

Archer 5/0/41/0

Kock 37, Bavuma 36, Dussen

50 not out, Klassan 28 not out

It is weird that Santner is the NZ ka Captain and IPL mein he is benched 😆

New Zealand (Playing XI): Finn Allen, Devon Conway(w), Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), Michael Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner

India (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya(c), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh

Dhoni is here ❤️

https://twitter.com/CricCrazyJohns/status/1618964831784271872?s=20&t=lvG0lm4mx89QGPqJrsssTQ

India opt to bowl

NZ - 32/0 (3.4)

CRR: 8.73

4.2 Washington Sundar to Finn Allen, out Caught by Suryakumar Yadav!! You live by the sword, you fall by it as well. He went for a similar shot and slogged it across the line. The ball went off the inner half of the bat and found the man at deep mid. Was an easy catch in the end. Finn Allen c Suryakumar Yadav b Washington Sundar 35(23) [4s-4 6s-2]

Washington Sundar to Finn Allen, THATS OUT!! Caught!!